Thursday, February 16, 2023

Nintendoverse Prime Revised, aka the Kirbyverse

 One of my earliest posts was the one for Nintendoverse Prime. Now, some things are still correct in that but I feel like theres been numerous updates to that verse and also my standards for what constitutions two franchises being in the same universe has changed slightly, I'll elaborate as we get going.

Here is a chart for the revised Nintendoverse Prime or rather...the Kirbyverse, let me elaborate on this chart that ive made for the occassion.

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Let's start like we did last time. Kirby's Dream Land 3



Samus appears in Kirby's Dream Land 3 and thanks Kirby for helping her with dealing with Metroids. In the same game, which I didn't include last time were other appearances in the same game.

Donbe & Hikari from the game Shin Onigashima, a game that was only released in japan for the famicom disk system appear in Kirby's Dream Land 3 as allies.


Chao & Goku appear in Kirby's Dream Land 3 as allies, Chao appeared previously in Kirby's Dream Land 2. They are from the Yūyūki game, another japan-only title.


R.O.B and Professor Hector appear as allies in Kirby's Dream Land 3. They are from Stack Up and Gyromite, the NES games that used the ROB peripheral.


Lolo & Lala make appearances in Kirby games from time to time, first seen in the first Kirby's Dream Land. They originate in the MSX game Eggerland Mystery. Adventures of Lolo is a spin-off of Eggerland Mystery.


One of the in-game comic strips in BoxBoy! has Box Boy try on the hat and sword from Kirby's sword form only to discover Kirby is right behind him. 

Qbby appears in many stages in Part-Time UFO, also appears in the main menu and when clicked will give the player a Qbby costume.



Once again we come to Kid Icarus: Uprising, now despite their fourth wall break attempt to seperate the universe as I said last time, how would Pit know what Metroids are to compare them to Komayto's? Like that doesn't make sense unless Pit himself has awareness of the multiverse which doesn't appear to be the case. Its a weird link but I just can't not include it.

Now previously, I had included Dead or Alive: Dimensions in the list of things but ive since learnt that the Metroid stage is not part of the story mode but unlockable after beating certain things in Arcade Mode. I don't think that constitutes a clear connection, if it was in the story mode it would've been different but i have to disqualify it.

I also left out Mario as his cameo is in a sub-game in Kirby Superstar Saga, the canonicity of which is questionable, also he appearas twice in the same scene for some reason so I'm gonna disqualify it.

Now if you're with me so far i've cut out a big chunk of things anmd its basically just the Kirbyverse. That's correct which is what I'll refer to it as from now on and in the Verse Index.

The Kirbyverse does connect to other universes such as Zelda via Link's Awakening, but thats getting into multiverse territory and Subcon/Link's Awakening is a whole nother can of worms so I'm calling it here.




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